Chapter 78 - Worthy fishing
After a few towns, the novelty starts to fade away, and soon they start to look same-y.
We have passed through the lands of several different lords along the way, and I start to pick up on the differences in government between them.
By far the place in which the people looked more rugged and always on edge was Amapytu. Probably it’s because of the location at the literal edge of the human realm, but...
I guess the Duke’s government has some hand in it. His seat of power Is further to the east, outside of our route, and he controls the largest amount of land among the nobles of the kingdom.
Evergrove looked quite normal compared to Amapytu. But still, it had a larger share of homeless people, and also the overall buildings were shabbier than the towns that we visited later. And it was still within the Duke’s territory.
I can’t tell for sure if the cities inside his duchy are poorer only because of his administration, or if the environment also plays a role that would make them poorer anyway.
And there’s the thing that I can only ’study’ each town between the time we arrive, which is normally around sunset, and the time we depart the following morning.
It isn’t nearly enough to make a proper study of the general state of things in these places. By a huge margin.
But it’s what I have right now. I stay up at night, listening to all the conversations in a radius of three hundred meters, while I’m lying down in my bed, in the dark.
Often I hear some nocturnal activities. When that happens, I simply cut off my perception and come back to the reality of the room and bed I’m in.
It’s strange to listen to those distant conversations, but at the same time it’s very interesting and useful.